Heavy Metal

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The only thing that belongs here

>>1846363
who

>>1846412
Nice prog-rock you have there.

>>1846363
>>1846430
>who
Brittney Hayes (a.k.a. Brittney Slayes) from Unleash The Archers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWbVUUkWm4v

>>1846549
Song: Lorna Shore – Life of Fear

>>1846408
Nice

>>1846412
That's not heavy metal

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>>1846382
Nope. Even in the nineties there WAS actual metal. You just had to look for it.

Collective Soul is NOT metal.

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There's a clear lack of beer in this thread.

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Andy Rehfeldt (and crew) is a genius.

>>1846412
I actually thoroughly enjoyed this film and its soundtrack.

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>>1846363
You want metal? You GOT metal!

>>1846412
>heavy metal
>metal
sure

>>1846549
kek

Metal is so dead...

>>1846818
How so?

>>1846660
It was pretty amazing.

Strange, but amazing

>>1846588
post surf

>>1846412
Fuck yeah, Heavy Metal!

My friends and I found an old VHS of this in a Goodwill a few years back. I had heard legendary things about it, so we bought it and that night we popped it into a beat up VHS player while we got ultra-stoned, as God intended. Blew our fucking minds. I remember the whole time it was like a fever dream but with kickass music playing. I couldn't keep up with the insane shit we were seeing and all my friends were laughing their asses off and just enjoying the crazy ride. Great memories from this movie.

Heavy metal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfB7vF7nCdA

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PREPARE YOUR ANUS

>>1847098
>>1846412
>>1846660
>>1847093

REACH OUT AND TAAAAKE IT! REACH OUT AND T-T-TAAAKE IT!

Yeah, that soundtrack kicked ass! Even though, to be fair, quite a couple of songs on it could not be considered "metal" by any stretch of the imagination, but it's still the epitome of 80s goodness.

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>>1847330
Oh, here's the song I was referencing. Falls right between heavy metal and prog rock if you ask me, so it's still within the "heavy metal spectrum"

>>1846363
mmmm that's what i always look for in metal, fucking autotune. OP is the ultimate faglord

>>1846828
Well, don't you think so? There's just hardly anything new. Hardly anything to challenge your listening habits anymore. Every style that gets promoted as "new" just feels like a rehash. It's a been-there-done-that affair altogether.

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>>1847350
all those female-fronted "symphonic"/"power"-metal bands that have been flooding the scene for the past 10 to 15 years or so...
I'm not a huge fan of the genre to start with, but if you ask me, hardly any of those bands has ever come close to the sense for the grandiose and glamorous that Turunen-era Nightwish had. They were cheesy, pure kitsch, and let's not even talk about the cringe-worthy lyrics – but they always delivered!

>>1847363
Turunen best Nightwish.

>>1846365
Jason being the beast he is

>>1847363
I don't even understand why it's metal. I mean you can put this kind of singing on everything.

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>>1846438
>>1846574
>>1846682
underaged

>>1847363
Goodness, she's kinda hot in that video.

>>1846404
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>>1847683
not
heavy
metal

>>1847699
No shit.

>>1847699
Not
Your
Decision

>>1847699
>>1847683 how;s this not heavy metal?

>>1847699
underaged

>>1847718
Pedants will now dissect everything to the smallest niche-name metal style.

>>1846363
Just horrible.

>>1847729
wrong....awesome...you clearly are a gaylord of highest caliber.

>>1847726
>niche
so basically almost all 80s metal is now niche?

>>1847787
Everyone wants their own little special place, so all slightly differing music gets its own name. Hence the hundreds of metal genres. Obviously, as things tend to go, people now get elitist about it.

>>1846363
she reminds me of dio

>>1847726
I thought the metal scene had moved away from that. I really thought that saying stuff like "No, that's not heavy metal! That's Dramatic Stockhausenian Mathematical Deathcore!" was only a fad...

>>1847651
What kind of singing? Metal has always been "operatic" to a certain extent. Wagnerian, if you will. Over-the-top.
Belting, shouting, screaming and growling are all just highly emphatic singing styles. But so is Tarja Turunen's dramatic soprano.
If the music was more laid-back, the singing style wouldn't fit, but as far as Nightwish's classic lineup and stylistic approach is concerned, I completely agree with
>>1847363

>>1847348
Great song to get you pumped in the morning!

>>1847363
Odins I tinks I needs to go touches myskelfs now.

>>1846365
The only good part of Metallica was newsted

>>1847726
>>1847818
Dude that shit is just glam rock.

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>>1846828
>>1847351

Metal officially died once I realized that Lady Gaga is a more capable metal vocalist than most ACTUAL metal vocalists.

>>1848360
Damn, she should just quit pop and go into metal.

>>1848360
That was...pleasantly surprising. I mean shes a good vocalist but damn.

>>1847363
And she was super phoning it in here. Earlier concerts were even better.

>>1848360
She's a genuinelly good singer who made the mistake to sell her soul to the pop jew. Not the first and won't be the last.

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>>1847699
So, If this song doesn't fall under the genre of Heavy Metal, what genre is it?

>>1847124
>>1847699
>Bad News not heavy metal
Leave the Hall!

>>1849008
Don't be trolled. Of course there are those who like to extrapolate the hypothetical super-genre of 'metal', only so they can categorize everything else, INCLUDING 'heavy metal' as a subgenre. The real problem is, that you either determine myriad subgenres with some only having two bands pertaining to them OR you determine subgenres which just completely blur and blend into another until trying to categorize anything makes just no more sense altogether.
So, is it 'power metal', is it 'symphonic metal' – heck, I don't know (probably 'power metal' though).

I'd just call it heavy metal or simply (and safely) 'metal' ... which doesn't mean that I like it, mind you.

>>1847718

hair metal/glam rock is everything heavy metal tried to smash

>>1848360
I have lost all respect I have for Metallica.

>>1849086
I think you're mixing things up. It's grunge, or rather the Seattle alternative scene of the late 80s/early90s that was marketed as an antithesis to 'hair metal'!
And 'hair metal' would never have existed without heavy metal in the first place (that's why it's called 'hair METAL' and not 'hairspray-heavy sing-along rock').
'Glam rock' wasn't even a term until the 80s or 90s and it was mainly used to retroactively describe bands from the 1970s. Heavy metal doesn't figure into this altogether though, since it evolved pretty much at the same time as 'glam rock'.
At the end of the day it's all rock'n'roll and some bands are more showy than others. But showmanship is NOT where line between metal and other styles is drawn.
As a matter of fact, a tendency towards shomanship is very much part of the definition of 'heavy metal'.

>>1849105
What respect I've lost for Metallica, I've gained for Lady Gaga.

>>1847782
Man that shit is gay as fuck what are talking about?

>>1849082
Addendum:
Not saying that genres don't serve a purpose. But the natural purpose here is communication, not marketing.
The point being that there's NO point in meticulously working out all the possible distinctions between "heavy metal", "true metal" and "power metal" when the question "what does band XY sound like?" really begs a more extensive answer than just a label.

bunch of fucking mexicans itt

>>1849163
wut

>>1847699
what part of africa do you hail from?

>>1846661
fucking finally

>>1846363
atleast she likes metal, not much these days that do you fucking cucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EluzTj88tWU

>>1849261
this is how the thread ends

>>1847718
>he thinks danger zone is heavy metal

nigger are you serious?

>>1847722
probably older than you faggot, now run along and go listen to your arcade fire and linkin park albums while you cut yourself

>>1849162
>lets just call everything ___core and be done with it

ebin

>>1846363
Live recordings make me cringe like a mother fucker.

>>1849311
Good for you.

>>1847112

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

>>1847351
Just stop listening to the same channels that feed you the same tunes over and over. You go out of your comfort zone and you start listening to some new shit. I'll give you that, metal is a matured style now so the main movement is getting streamlined. But saying metal is dead is just straight up idiotic.

>>1848360
Lady Gaga is a good singer, she has a good natural voice and trains with the best voice trainers in the world. The fact that she chose to do some generic pop shit does not make her shit.

>>1849008
Humperdinckcore

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>>1846661
hellz yeah

>>1848185
Oh hai Skwisgaar!

>>1849567
Ahhh, Symphony X. Feels like ages since I last listened to them. But why such a short snippet? Say nothing! Wait a minute, I'm gonna handle this! BRB

>>1849714
i dunno, it just rendered that way.

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>>1849567
there y'are.

jesus this whole thread is fucking trash, bunch of fucking posers with shit taste. all of you should consider suicide for even considering this shit "metal" fucking disgrace

>>1849726
I suppose that a lot of the bitrate was wasted on that clear, crisp picture, that's redrawn at 30fps or something.

>>1849733
well, how about you post some PROPER metal then.

>>1849729
>>1849736
I used the dub feature on top of a still image in webm for retards and limited the file size to 4mb and for some reason it just cut the duration off. Maybe i need some other custom arguments.

Got any tips?

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>>1849742
in this case, my recommendation would be the following:
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I actually re-encoded it a minute ago because I just noticed that
>>1849729
had the mp3-bitrate at 64kb/s while it's really no big deal having it at 96kb/s – far from CD quality but still one helluva lot better. than

The real trick is having the image occupy as little space as possible. First I'd recommend reducing the image's colour palette (simply converting it to a gif will do the trick, no matter if the source file actually gets BIGGER than a jpeg in that case – it'll get re-compressed anyway), then, as I said, you don't need a framerate of 30fps – that's just bloody useless in that case. 1fps is enough. And then you'll have to do a bit of fiddling to find the right size and bitrate for the video. I'd recommend an image width of more than 200px though, since otherwise the interface on 4chan will become too small.

>>1849737
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGtMbuxRFU

>>1849763
ooooh, we's so evulz! – Now THAT'S "posing".

Uninspired thrashing. Used to listen to that kind of stuff in my teens. Got really boring after a while.

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>>1849761
Changing the fps and using a gif made a huge difference. Cheers anon.

>>1846642
Good driving track.
I remember being 14 and downloading the video for Suicide Messiah from LimeWire and thinking "I can't wait to go to metal gigs where the girls look like that." So naive.

>>1847124
RIP Rik. I like to think Bad News is what happened after they left Scumbag College and before Bottom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxww_-5bjo8

>>1849794
Yeah, you can crank up the audio bitrate considerably. 45 b/s really messes with the song, even if it's "black-ish" stuff.
At a length of 4:35, a bitrate of at least 64 kb/s is fine. Might get a bit dicey at 96 kb/s but that should work as well. When in doubt just fuck up the video bitrate completely. Set it to 1kb/s – doesn't matter much. You can use a monochrome picture in case the artifacts bother you. The less image information there is to process, the lower the video bitrate can be.

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>>1849852
cool

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>>1848834
Well, yes. that was when she was just about to leave the band (tiny anecdote here: While I for one never really cared about the whole "symphonic" thing and regarded that band as little more than a guilty pleasure of mine, my girlfriend at time was madly into Nightwish – she even had a penchant for long lace gowns... heck, I didn't mind: she had one helluva body and wore them well – and boy, oh boy, was she just DEVASTATED by the news. Teenage girls...oh my!).

I just happened to have that specific video kicking around on my harddrive.
But you're right. Here's another one:
Same song, better vocals – and even fewer overdubs, i believe – even though her vocals were most definitely NOT overdubbed on the other version either (the taped samples were just mixed in louder).

>>1849879
Now we're cookin! And +1 bonus internet for posting Warlock!

>>1848360
I wanted to shag her before, now I want to shag her even more. mmmh, she's only like 5'1'' and so friggin skinny. It'd be like SKEWERING her.
Time for a cold shower.

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>>1849885
I never got into the female operatic thing. I prefer female singers to actually do metal vocals. Case and point.

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does this count?

>>1850109
As I said: Guilty pleasure.

>>1850176
BG always counts

Although i will just say that newer BG (A night at the opera onwards) is way too focused on theatrical compositions for my tastes. It's good music, no doubt, but I preferred them when they balanced it with their traditional power/speed metal roots (Nightfall in Middle-earth).

>>1850176
Of course, m8!

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>>1846363

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This was posted on a ygyl thread and no one gave sauce :(
What is the song pls

>>1849311
That's not a live recording dumbass, it's a music video.

>>1846371
this doesn't fit at all...

most of this is pleb metal. ew

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>>1848843
>She's a genuinelly good singer who made the mistake to sell her soul to the pop jew.
Have you heard Kesha's ureleased songs? She sounded really good when she recorded heavy rock/folk/country songs.

Of course the label she was signed to didn't allow these songs to be released because all they wanted was the usual generic pop songs but no, Kesha is actually a really good musician who was denied to express herself.

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>>1851931
This is such an amazing song with that guitar solo, acoustic guitar along with clean electric.

>>1851213
I'm not sure, but the band sounds like it might be Turmion Kätilöt. All of their shit is in finnish so it's kind of hard to look up the lyrics.

>>1851967
>>1851213
Looks like I was right. The song is Kirottujen Karnevaalit by Turmion Kätilöt off the album Diskovibrtor

https://youtu. [space] be/NtSEop6D6u4

>>1851658
Why don't you contribute something from your clearly superior taste in music, faggot?

>>1849885
>and even fewer overdubs, i believe
Yeah, that's one of the main problems with concert recordings released by a band's label. A lot of them are still embellished with more overdubs than you can wiggle your willie at.

>>1847363
tarja all the way, fuck the newer girls

>>1851967
>>1851987
Thansk man

>>1851931
>>1851943
na she sucks, that shit voice is made for shit pop, and you're retarded

>>1852111
>spoonfeeding mentally handicapped newfags

>>1852507
>spoonfeeding
That's not how you use that word.

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>>1847124
>>1849080
>>1849836
HAVE I SAID IT ENOUGH?!?

Jesus you fuckers don't even know metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92FJPZkfdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OA9xmbsfFg&list=PLSa29DgoDQruP8oAWnIgekXZgl7vS4tqi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovrPGCrm9I

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I feel like I'm too old to stay in the metal scene anymore. Like, the young kids who grew up on pussy metal are old enough to be the new generation that thinks they know what good metal is.

I got in an argument the other day with a guy who played me some mallcore type crap, or metalcore, or whatever faggot crap it was, and said it was literally the heaviest thing ever. It was pure trash. Whiny, faggoty Disney channel singing, weak screaming, bland, dumbed down "breakdown" riffs, etc. Pure fucking trash. I told him Pantera shits on bands like that and he said PANTERA WASN'T HEAVY. Are you fucking kidding me. That right there basically told me I was talking to a retarded brick wall. But the thing is, it seems like people like him outnumber old school metal dudes like me now.

Basically, all of the best metal came out back before the fans had any phones to distract them. The bands nowadays have no energy to feed off of, and their motives are nonexistent, so there's no soul to it. Even if you watch Slayer play live these days, the crowd is just dead except in the mosh pit. Metal sucks now, and these early 20's kids literally have no idea how bad it is now.

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>>1852788
posting more cuz of my dubs

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>>1852806
IMO, late 80s-90's metal just had more talent involved in the writing process. More was going on, songs were being written that had actual substance. The bands MEANT what they were doing, they weren't just trying to make the best "breakdown". Modern metal has the same mentality as trap music in the rap world. Both genres are suffering a loss of quality, but the current generation is too watered down to notice or care.

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>>1852819
Also, I used to call Death Metal "false metal". We (my friends and I) all thought it defeated the purpose of metal because the lyrics were so terribly simple and the vocals completely unintelligible. But after some years, and after seeing what metal became later, I realized that not only is Death Metal legit, but it's actually some of the heaviest of all metals.

>>1850109
hey that's actually pretty bad ass. Fast riffs and drums, cool album art, heroic sounding vocals. Hell yes.

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>>1852788
>The bands nowadays have no energy to feed off of

that's a big one, it probably feels like shit to play with so much intensity to a nonexistent crowd. I don't really think metal's dead, it's just the days of being "hard" and mainstream or dead, no one really cares anymore. Sucks too because a lot of the musicians are as talented and technical as ever but you're never going to draw crowds like they did a few decades ago

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Yeah, pretty decent Polish band. Their first two albums are good classic no-nonsense catchy heavy/power metal.

Couldn't get that other vid to render out fully.

>>1852939
>Polish
>Luca Turilli
>Alessandro "Alex" Staropoli
>Fabio Lione
>Alessandro Lotta
>Dominique Leurquin
>Polish
You were probably baiting, but holy shit, anon.

>>1847699
another dumb kid who thinks metal is only what he likes.

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>>1846363

>>1853020
He meant that as a reply to
>>1852829

>>1852788
I feel your pain. But if you look above, you'll see that there's quite a bit of variety to this thread. There's really classic stuff like warlock, there's some Pantera, there's black Label Society. A little bit of everything.

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>>1853020
>>1853257
Kek, yea, im talking about Crystal Viper - they are Polish. Rhapsody are the most ITALIAN fuckin metal band ever.

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>>1853373
I've been meaning to listen to this band for years and keep forgetting. Thanks for reminding me.

>>1852601
Best moment is when Dim notices it says sausages on the menu when they're trying to do the interview with Saunders.

>>1852788
>Pantera
>old school
I don't like this crazy world we're living in.

>>1854068
eh, give me a break. Every real metalhead knows Pantera fits well within the scope of true metal. OK, they're not "old school" like Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, but then again, I never said they were. I said I was an old school metal head. I used Pantera as an example to this dude I was talking to because the band he played me could best be put next to Pantera for a comparison of how easy good metal can shit on the garbage they call metal these days.

For a reference, this dude likes Asking Alexandria. Pantera is oldschool compared to them, and are better anyways regardless of age.

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>>1854135
>this dude likes Asking Alexandria

Well, this does in fact really tell you everything about the kind of person you're talking about...

>>1852544
but it is

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>>1846438
>>1846574
>>1846682
>>1847699

>MFW
>Not knowing this movie
>Being this autistic

The title of the movie is literally Heavy Metal you uneducated swine.

>>1847114
Sounds like industrial metal?

>>1854303
not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfrdJRXqICE

>>1846363
I have nothing to contribute but I just want to say thanks to everyone who does so in these threads. Because of a metal thread on /wsg/ I looked into UTA and now they're one of my favorite modern metal bands.

So thanks to that anon who posted one of their songs about a year or so ago.

>>1846363
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InoNbI7Tf6I&list=LLafzxSgbbbQQiwNQerREiZg&index=3
this is real metal you fucks

>>1854541
Glad to hear it man, that's why I start these threads.
Not just to share music that I like, but I hope that someone will post a band I haven't heard and will open my eyes to something new.

That's why I hate these "Thats not Metal" replies with no input of their own.
I think, "well show me then!". Not in a combative way, I'm always open to new music.
I'm always looking for the next band to obsess over.

>>1846422
That riff reminded me of the classic HL2 stuff

https://youtu.be/bdyahzWRLC0

>>1854312
yeah sorry, i dont watch shit movies.

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>>1854910

>>1854317
ye , it is

>>1851103
You maybe saved this thread.

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>>1855205
I know.

>>1850176
Holy shit I haven't heard BG in forever.

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>>1846363
I find Sabaton a bit too samey, but once in a while they hit it right out of the park. Their The Last Stand album has a decent number of such songs.

>>1850219
Nah, Blind Guardian went back to more manageable music with their last few albums. It was just in the middle of their career that you had a lot of post which effectively made songs not performable live.

>>1855255
what would you even classify them as now?

>>1849885
King Diamond without makeup.

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>>1850176
Hansi related

>>1855335
damn shame there hasn't been a third album

>>1855344
>On May 15, 2017, Jon Schaffer confirmed in an interview with Metal Wani that he was working with Hansi Kürsch on material for a new Demons and Wizards album.[2][3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15e7KoEmZ9Y 15:42

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>>1855365
Best news all day. Thanks, anon.

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Does anyone know this?

>>1855416
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKAi11MtJY

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Alot of my faves being posted.

Now some of the worst/best black metal ever.

>>1847699
the edge is strong with this one

>>1846363
Unleash the archers seen them live a few times and have never been disappointed.

>>1855404

CHOOOOOOOOOOON!

>>1855616

only gothfags listen to that shit

>>1851262
Evil Lies In Every Man is a good one also.

>>1854910
oh yeah, what do you watch? The Avengers? Guardians of the Galaxy?

If you haven't seen Heavy Metal (the movie), you're denying yourself some bad assery. But the true majority of people are weak minded and only watch/listen to/think about what's popular, so they miss out on a lot of really cool, unique stuff. So it makes sense that you haven't seen it.

Carry on.

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>>1855899
I believe goths listen to 'gothic' music/metal. For example:

>>1855252

as much as i agree, the prelude and build into this song gives me a mad hard-on

>>1855252
>not winged hussars

but yeah, hype

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>>1851103

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>>1850176
>>1855335

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>>1850176
>>1855335
>>1857004
Hansi on guest vocals

>>1854448
yea really

>>1856966
>>1856972
Thanks for reminding me about them. I've heard a few of their songs around 20 years ago and wanted to get a copy but for some reason forgot.

>>1857004
Pinnacle BG imo.

>>1857105
>>1857108
>>1857230
I'm always on the look out for little rarities like this. Thanks for posting.

>>1857397
Has anyone put And Then There Was Silence into a webm yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAxCx95mO8

>>1857105
>>1857108
Stryper? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

>>1847363
Seconded. I kind of grewed tored of the entire genre within a year of first stumbling across Nightwish around 2000 or maybe 2001, but no band has ever been able to work that genre without coming off as second-rate to Nightwish.

>>1851103
I grew up in a rural area of scandinavia before internet made everything available. Everyone knew Metallica, but apart from that there was no metal. Then one day my cousin visited, and he brought with him a VHS of shitloads of Pantera. My life would never be the same again.

>>1846363
Metal would be so much better if they didn't look and bob their heads like literal autists

Gatekeeping: The Thread

>>1853376
I am confused

>>1852939
>band separates into 2 bands after album 10
>one side forgets how to write choruses
>the other forgets how to write riffs
It's kind of sad.

>>1852410
I think Anette Olzon just left a bad taste to most fans. Floor Jansen is much much better.

>>1858195
They put out some neat individual songs with Anette Olzon nevertheless. But her singing was too one-note to keep you invested in an entire album.

>>1858195
>>1858254
And one has to consider one very simple fact: At the time Tarja Turunen left Nightwish, she was at the peak of her physical attractiveness. And she got replaced by a 38-year-old who looked entirely too Scandinavian.

Marketability, folks!

>>1857999
it is way too long

>>1858179
You just reminded me of something I was trying to suppress. Is there yet anything like Therion's
"Secret of the Runes" or "Gothic Kabbalah"?

>>1858578
>Therion

How come they're so underrated? I don't think they have a single bad album. I would point at Les Fleurs du Mal for being mediocre, though.

>>1858586
>I don't think they have a single bad album.
I'm probably an outlier, but Sitra Ahra did nothing for me, at all. Experimenting is well and good, it's just too different from what I hoped they'd make, I suppose. Haven't even tried the last one.

>>1855252
Sabaton is hype as fuck live. Everyone loses their shit when they play primo victoria

>>1858586
hmmm... it's one of those bands I used to listen to... and then completely forgot about them, to be honest.

I don't know how to webm so here's a link instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXhJhoxdpzY

>>1857999
You couldn't post it here anyway. 5min limit.

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>>1857240
In addition to Hansi's guest vocals on this Edguy track, Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius fame played the guitar solos and mixed the album.

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Grave Digger featuring Hansi Kürsch and Van Canto

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>>1858848
Glorious!

Any /pol/ metal?

>>1859218
what the fuck does that even mean

>>1847117
Probably the best metal band there ever was...

From Mars to Sirius is a masterpiece unlike any other.

>>1859218
No. Fuck you.

>>1846371
Kinda dope

>>1859522
what is this please respond

>>1859645
Dimmu Borgir - Gateways if im not mistaken

>>1859662
ty bb

>>1859727
np hun

>>1859522
More people have to do this in these threads. Make 40 to 60 sec Webms of cool moments in songs.
Its what this board is for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkW-K5RQdzo

>>1859783
Hmmm, Rob Zombie. That laugh at the end sounds like he had invited over Mike Patton though.

>>1859303
Recordings of people wanking to Hitler speeches, I believe.

>>1860503
>tfw realizing how much a manlet Vivian Campbell is when I met him after seeing Last in Line a few months ago

>>1847699
you're correct

>>1860650
>not
>you
>are
>correct
baka desu

>>1860650
thanks anon.
they know it's true and still get assblasted.

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>>1846363

>>1860898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86uGyfUyz4o

>>1859522
she's amazing
I wish the video was long enough to show the end note

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out of the way faggots, real metal coming through

>>1846363
gay

>>1860503
Fucking classic!

>>1854312
Thank you Anon, I came to post exactly this.

As a guy who DID NOT grow up during the heavy metal years, its still sad to see my generation shit all over it by not understand that not all metal needs to be over the top cranky scream/growl black metal.

Now now before you slam me and I know you want to fellow anons, there are some good screamo/growl metal, but this music is also metal.

Every Thrash band went modern except overkill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnXxcqWv1o

>>1851103
Ah, Pantera. The band that is one of the most responsible metal bands that caused the fucking "tougher-than-you" metal. I find Pantera okay, mind you.

>>1851228
Oh my god. As enjoyable as SotS can be, I really wish melodeath was like that in modern day too, well, with variations of course.
Older melodeath was actually close to black metal in terms of all the tremolo riffing, but they used the more epic scales. Sacrilege, first Dark Tranquillity album... That's what I call oldschool melodeath, not those SotS ripoffs.
Did you enjoy At War With Reality?

>>1859218
just search for NSBM and fuck off

>>1861581
Gonna see this lot support Red Fang and Mastodon in December. Looking forward to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufilzHKTqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2qBEvP2uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlA20fnSYgU&list=PL3geu8MfUIXemmn4TFJC6Hom2BJ-cItlO

Love these guys. forever

>>1851909
i guess Nickleback is bretty good

Let us not forget these lot ;)

https://youtu.be/kpKJUa6IoBs

Still an inspiration for a lot of 'modern' bands.

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Bracing myself...

>>1854541
>>1854900
Yeah Unleash the Archers is great.

Then you get the autistic metal elitists that sit there and say "FUK U FOR LIKING THINGS THIS IS REEL METUL"

Jesus christ, this is exactly why I can't stand local metal scenes, especially Thrash, It's cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjBa_WmwyA

>>1863351
It's some weirder shit, but god damn it's a really creative approach

>>1863133
Sauce?

>>1852410
Floor Jansen is a Goddess, NW songs fit Tarja's voice more in your head because it was the first version you heard, just like Amaranth was so good in Anette's voice for me.

NOT METAL tho.

>>1863560
YOU'RE NOT METAL!

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guys?

>>1862269
>hey I'm a huge faggot watch how I tip my fedora

yes, wonderful

>>1863773
damn, thought I was gonna like that 1 until the ***singing*** started

>>1863456
Lydia - highly suspect according to shazam

>>1863846
yeah i agree with you, but for a 1 dude band its ok
and i quite like everything else

>>1846363
>
thats not heavy metal LOL

>>1863895
holy shit read the rest of the thread before repeating the shitposts that have infested it

>>1863905
maybe he's one of those shitposters, simply repeating HIMSELF

>>1863773
>>1863846
>>1863854
Not bad, but the music either needs to be dirtied up to match the vocals OR he should try/get a clean vocalist.

>>1846661
Excellent Anon. I have never heard this band or song before. Thank you!

>>1848360
Id listen to the lady gaga metal band after hearing this.

>>1849879
Holy shit, Its go time now

>>1855335
one of the first albums I bought with my own money

>>1861555
I honestly wish more of their songs were this good. It's a masterpiece imo

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Curious if this will garner hate.

>>1852788
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Zj9LpJK8Y

Plenty of amazing modern metal if you look in the right places. A lot of metalcore can even be greatly crafted it's just easy to do wrong

>>1851760
this chick reminds me of medow from the sopranos way to much for life.

>>1852788
i was just thinking how shitty it is that, when watching the videos of these sick ass 'old school' bands and seeing how crazy the crowd got, how fucking cool it must have been to be there. i was born in 87 and missed out of the 90's live metal craze, fuckign bullshit.

Can't be arsed to make a webm of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq4dvBZvPkw

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>>1854910

>>1846363
Fucking awesome thanks for sharing

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>>1847407
>>1852410
>>1858195
>>1858254
I have nothing agains Anette OR Floor – they're fine singers in their own right – it's just that Tarja's vocals were what set apart Nightwish from a lot of other bands. Just compare this >>1849885 to WEBM related (I consciously chose the exact same passage of the song),

Floor's vocals are by no means "bad". The belting gives them a more aggressive and arguably sexier touch. But as far as I'm concerned, Nightwish never was a "sexy" band. They were a fairytale-fantasy who were basically at their best when they were at their cheesiest (the fact that their lyrics were, at times, well-nigh indecipherable thanks to Tarja's singing style actually helped make the music more enjoyable). And clean or belted vocals can be found in almost every conceivable style of popular music, ranging from metal to rock to pop and soul music. They're no longer playing symphonic metal, they're playing AT symphonic metal nowadays. What's kinda awkward about this WEBM, if you think of it: The taped background vocals of course still consist of Tarja's multitracked voice.

But as pointed out by >>1863560 a song like "Amaranth" – which is a lovely song – wouldn't work with Tarja's dramatic soprano and the same is true for songs recorded by the band as fronted by Floor Jansen.

Okay, that's all there is to say about Nightwish, I guess.
Damn shame we hit the bump limit, this thread actually turned rather interesting midway through, the whole "not metal"-malarkey notwithstanding.

>>1866791
fuck yes wacken

>>1867291
Wacken is just pure torture these days. Of course it features a kickass lineup almost every year and you can't really blame anyone specifically, but it suffered the same fate as every major rock festival in that it has simply become too big for its own good by now. I wouldn't want to keep anyone from going, but the last time I've been there, three years ago, I just told myself: Enough is enough. While it was far from "cozy" even TEN years ago, I have neverthless settled on visiting only smaller scale festivals these days.

>>1846661
Thank you for sharing this band and song.

>>1855335
Possibly the single best hard rock song of the 00'

We will never see an era of metal as purely amazing as Horror Show, and A Night At The Opera.

Talking about Metal female vocals, In This Moment's Maria Brink is olev.
When they're doing metal and not pop. Oh well, they put out some amazing stuff, so let 'em do what they want.

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>>1847114

>>1868853
gay

>>1849082
>>Symphonic metal.
>>No instruments used in a classical orchestra are being used besides a female vocalist.
>>No choir.
>>No keyboard.

Wikipedia Cited;
Symphonic metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which combines the heavy drums and guitars of metal with different elements of orchestral classical music, such as symphonic instruments, choirs and sometimes a full orchestra. Keyboards reminiscent of power metal also sometimes feature.

This is clearly just standard "Power Metal", by this song alone.

>>1849082
>>1869603

It's not that hard to differentiate really.

First, 'metal' is an overarching term, ie referring to all types of ________ metal. When someone says they "listen to metal", the next question should always be, "what type?". This refers the subgenres. There is no actual such thing as "metal" in terms of a specific genre. It is simply now just a short-hand term. Once upon a time, in the early days "metal" could have meant/been synonymous with "heavy metal". This is because heavy metal was the first metal genre.

>>1869973
So what is heavy metal? Black Sabbath are a heavy metal. Iron Maiden are a heavy metal. Some key aspects of HM:

-tempo/drumming: varies, can be fast to slow. but never very slow (ala doom) or very fast (ala speed metal. power metal, ect)

-vocals: clean, powerful and aggressive vocals that are sung melodically. HM cannot have harsh vocals.

-guitar work: chuggy, riffy, with guitar solos and varies in degree of melody; almost never strumming; guitarists in hm typically don't play in 'drop tuning'

-scales: pentonic and bluesy type scales often make an appearance, majors are very common, minors less so but not unheard of; almost never will you hear augmented, diminished or harmonic minors, these scales are too dark and evil sounding (reserved for extreme metal genres)

-lyrical content: highly variable, although i would not expect to hear anything more intense than the typical 'pop culture satansim' we're all familar with; generally hm lyrics are fun and aim more for catchiness; one aspect that might separate it from power metal is that hm chorus lines are typically more repetitive and simplistic, aiming for punch as opposed to communication

-other aspects: hm bands usually never have a synth/keyboard player; orchestrated elements aren't unheard of, but these are used sparingly and for emphasis only; keys do not form part of hm music conventionally

>>1869975
Now power metal

-tempo/drumming: varies, but typically faster than hm on average; double kicking tends to be used a lot more in PM; as well as galloping technique/rhythm

-vocals: very close to HM, but perhaps with less aggression and less attitude; there is more emphasis on clarity and melody; power metal singers tend to sound more like they're auditioning for a Disney film; they hark back to a more 'classical' approach to singing

-guitar work: again close to HM but with a few differences; more emphasis on melody and technique; much more aimed at supporting the vocalist, providing 'chords' rather than 'riffs'; typically more exploratory in terms of rhythm styles; guitar solos are usually on a whole other level and have much more of a classical emphasis; guitars are usually set to play off keyboards

-scales: close to HM but blues scales are out; PM is very heavy in its major scales; again PM is a genre of metal harking back to classical music and the traditional melodies it entailed; PM doesn't try to sound 'sexy' like HM does

lyrical content: can be very variable but on average lyrics are more literary and informational; history and fantasy is more common in content and these are addressed in more detail; many PM bands go a lot further in terms of narrative; whole albums can be devoted to a single narrative, this typically isn't seen in HM; PM lyrics are usually more positive than negative but not always!

other aspects: a big player in PM, although not in all PM bands, is keyboards; many PM bands have a keyboardist and they are responsible for introducing a lot of the classicism and orchestration which is a big part of the genre; usually a string section as well as wind section is common and the keyboardist has a lot more to do with the song-writing process.

That's my take on these two genres.

>>1869995
Finally, I will just say that 'symphonic metal' is not a genre. The are multiple genuine metal subgenres which have symphonic elements in their music but this does not make them a 'symphonic metal' band. It's simply a stylistic choice. An example: Both Nightwish and the band Emperor have a lot of symphonic elements in their music but the prior is a power metal band and latter is a black metal band. You could call Nightwish 'symphonic power metal' and emperor 'symphonic black metal', but that's about it.

>>1869603
You have to see that most genres of metal existed way before wikipedia AND they existed mostly in terms of communication (with of course some terms having been adopted by publications like Metal Hammer et al.)
This means that any wikipedia article pertaining to one specific genre of metal will at best be contentious.

If you only want to categorize stuff like Rhapsody (of Fire) as symphonic metal – go on, no problem there. But you have to see that the discussion of those terms has been going on FOREVER.

>>1870001
Fair enough. A genre theorist would take this as a valid point.

>>1869975
>>1869995
Phew! Boy, oh boy. This reminds me of the discussions I had with some "friends" (i.e. concert acquaintances) of mine in the olden days. It was fun back then and would be fun right now, but unfortunately this thread is about to fold.

You replied to
>>1849082
but please note that I added >>1849162